The road to transfer proliferation for both Arkansas and Texas started long before either coach paced those respective sidelines. For Arkansas coach Eric Musselman and Texas coach Chris Beard, the seeds to excel in the transfer portal — one that saw more than 1,700 players this past offseason —started before either coach landed their first Division I head coaching job.
For Musselman, the willingness to roll the dice on a transfer seemed like a much safer gamble than many he faced when coaching in the G League.
“To me, the immediate stuff is right up my alley,” Musselman told CBS Sports. “… People are worried about what your locker room is going to be like, but I have zero flinch in having a guy for one year because when you’re coaching in the G League, you’ve got a guy for one week.”
Musselman said he was reminded of when the Golden State Warriors sent down Jeremy Lin to get him repetitions. Lin needed to…
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